A stock image different to the one used by York Uni depicts the symbolic animals (Picture: Shutterstock / Photo Love)Academics at the University of York have removed an image of the three wise monkeys from their website after deciding it ‘exploits racist stereotypes’. The animals, a cultural symbol originating in Japan which represents the ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ proverb, were d
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